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13,000 AGLOCO Sign Ups

You know what the coolest thing about AGLOCO is? You go on vacation to see family in Toronto. You have a great time, take a side trip to Montreal and Quebec City, fly home, check your AGLOCO stats and find it went up by another 2,000 referrals. I guess I’ll have to skip my 12,000 sign ups update since I blew by it so fast.

Where Is The Viewbar?

That is the number one question on everyone’s mind. AGLOCO has stated that the Viewbar was slated for release between April 2 – 16. Now they’re saying it’s “days away.” In the past, I has stated my desire to have AGLOCO delay the Viewbar so I can sign up more people. There’s less competition when there’s no Viewbar. However, now that I have over 13,000 people in my network, I think I want to see the Viewbar.

According to AGLOCO, the current problem is getting the Viewbar to talk to the ad server. There’s no use letting members download the Viewbar if it can’t show any ads. Hopefully, this problem gets resolved quickly and there’ll be no other delays. AGLOCO says it’s still on track for an April release. I can see members starting to get tire of one excuse after another so it better be released this month. I think it’s time I do another conference call with Akshay Mavani.

I Have Already Made Money From AGLOCO

Promoting AGLOCO has been really good for this blog. I have already made money from it. How can I do that when there’s no Viewbar? I am listed as a resource in AGLOCO’s Referral center page. So far this month, that page has sent me 3,407 readers and 6,712 page views. That’s enough to make AGLOCO the number one referring site outside of Google.

This blog has a site wide eCPM $27.26. That means I make $27.26 for every 1,000 page views. AGLOCO sends me 9,000 to 10,000 page views each month. That’s an extra $245 to $270 of blog income that I wouldn’t have if I didn’t promote AGLOCO. Once they release the Viewbar, I’ll be able to add to that total.

I don’t intend this comment to be negative towards AGLOCO (I’ve had enough of that for now!) but they’re actually sending me a lot of traffic too. Every day the viewbar is delayed, more and more people are searching for ‘agloco scam’ and ‘agloco fraud’. 😈

You can imagine, if the Viewbar will be launched by the end of the year, John’s network will pass the 100000 limit. Too bad that we have no data about people in the down line! If only we could have contacted them…

I agree with Skitzzo regarding the conversion factor. One of my blogs is also listed on AGLOCO’s website; it sends me about 3,000 readers a month. But that traffic is highly untargeted and coverts much worse than my regular, organic traffic.

So while the “sitewide” eCPM is $27.26, I can pretty much guarantee that the traffic coming from AGLOCO’s site is producing far below that. I know because I get essentially the same traffic from them day in and day out as well.

Yes, it’s nice to think (and post) that the AGLOCO traffic is making $250 to $270, but I think that figure is quite inaccurate. Nonetheless, congrats on hitting the 13,000 mark! 😀

I don’t think it’s accurate to imply that the page views from AGLOCO’s link resulted in the average pay per pageview. It’s likely that many (more than half) of them left without clicking on any affiliate links or ads. So their only value is that it increases your visitors/pageviews, which allows you to charge more for your reviews.

Of course it just means that you’re making more per visitor from other sources. I just don’t think that you can sell it as a reason to join the network.

Yes, but he gets visitors by being associated with AGLOCO which is a good reason to sign-up. And I think he has to associate visits/pageview as that’s the only way to really associate a dollar value to visits….

No, that’s not the only way to associate visits. John has Google Analytics set up on this site (as all good webmasters should) and can tell how the AGLOCO visitors perform. However, in general more visitors=more advertising revenue so he is probably in the black on this whole deal.

Call me a skeptic but every time one of these delays is announced I grow more and more convinced that AGLOCO will end up being a HUGE flop. If they can’t manage to deliver the viewbar (something critical to the success of their company) in a timely manner what makes you think they’ll be able to deliver on any of their other promises?

As I’ve said in the past, John has positioned himself well on this one and it appears he’s already profiting (at least to some extent) from it. However, I think in the end many many people will have wasted their time for a nice share of nothing.

Well John has explained that he has already earned money just due to the extra traffic. As for the viewbar not being out, people will only earn money once the IPO goes. That inherently will require a lot of patience. That means that the specific time the viewbar comes out isn’t going to cause a flood of money coming in. This game’s all about patience and I think John has played it well.

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